A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
Alice Kessler-Harris
Abstract
This book explores the changing social ideas that have determined wages for women during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The struggle between the concepts of identity, traditional gender roles, and the workforce has historically led to much conflict as women tried to gain first a minimum wage, and then equal pay for equal work. Even today, the debate still exists concerning women, work, motherhood, and careers. This book investigates how wage exists as a social construct that influences the way women are compensated for their work, creating the boundaries between what is deemed ... More
Keywords: wages for women, traditional gender roles, minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, motherhood and career, wage as a social construct, separate spheres, free market, social wage
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813145136 |
| Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: January 2015 | DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813145136.001.0001 |
